More than a dozen people conspired to steal the deed to a Harlem brownstone so they could sell it for profit, the Manhattan district attorney’s office alleged Thursday.
The office said it had indicted 18 people and three companies on charges of conspiracy, grand larceny, residential mortgage fraud and other crimes. Not all the defendants had appeared before a judge as of Thursday afternoon, but those who did all pleaded not guilty, according to the DA’s office.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg said the brownstone on 131st Street had been left to the owner’s husband, two children and a grandchild after she died in 2018. He said the defendants spent several years hatching a plan to steal the building for their own benefit…